“I can't imagine pressing on relentlessly through day and night with mind, body, spirit in a single state, can't imagine denying myself… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Think of it this way, Mara. We don’t have the power to make the sun rise, but we can choose to be… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Day 247 It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus” — Deena B. Chopra Copy Share Image
If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.The imagination, give it… — Henry David Thoreau (1817â1862 Copy Share Image
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Those persons, then, who possess the earnest of the Spirit, and who are not enslaved by the lusts of the flesh, but… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People… — Nate Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Judges is the best book in the Old Testament for the understanding of renewal and revival, while Acts is the best place… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
I think holiday spirit can mean many things and I think holiday spirit is just sort of your state of happiness during… — Noah Galvin Copy Share Image
Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to… — David Thibodeau Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I believe we can all work to foster a spirit of compassion, understanding, and awareness within… — Kenny Stills Copy Share Image
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan. Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much… — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as… — H.W. Charles Copy Share Image
My routine consists of being awake by 6 A.M., reading and educating myself more and more on the Bible followed by nine… — Manny Ramirez Copy Share Image
“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
